Matthew Feeney on Foreign Aid to Egypt in The Orange County Register

I wrote an op-ed for The Orange County Register in which I argue that the Obama administration should cancel foreign aid to Egypt immediately.

A snippet:

Last week, Egyptian security forces removed supporters of recently deposed President Mohamed Morsi from protest camps that had been built after last month's military coup. In the resulting violence nearly 1,000 people have been killed and thousands more have been wounded. Egypt's military-backed interim government is receiving widespread condemnation for the deadly clashes, including a rebuke from President Barack Obama.

Speaking from Martha's Vineyard last week, the president announced that a scheduled joint-military exercise with Egypt was being canceled. "While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back," President Obama said.

Read the complete op-ed here (behind a paywall). 

For more from Reason.com on Egypt click here. 

Comments

[hamilton]

While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back

I imagine that as soon as Obama stops doing those things, Egypt will consider being our friends again.

[Kaptious Kristen]

cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back,

That's rich!

[anon]

Yeah it is... we should really work on fixing that in our country.

[Hyperion]

Look, umm, civilians being killed in the streets, is uhhh, only good when I do it with one of my death drones. You see, ummm, because I'm the messiah and I only kill with good intent.

/King Obama

[Hugh Akston]

Obama's not talking about your musty old constitutional rights, Kristen. He's talking about the important rights like the right to free healthcare, the right to not pay your debts, and the right to be free of information that doesn't fit the government narrative.